SabresBeat Posted June 30, 2006 Report Posted June 30, 2006 Let the frenzy begin!!! Single Day Event On: 7/1/2006
Corp000085 Posted July 1, 2006 Report Posted July 1, 2006 Does it start at Midnight or 12 noon? I'm neithe able to confim nor deny that free agency begins at 12am or 12 pm.
Eleven Posted July 1, 2006 Report Posted July 1, 2006 I'm neithe able to confim nor deny that free agency begins at 12am or 12 pm. TSN's front page (www.tsn.ca) states noon.
elcrusho Posted July 1, 2006 Report Posted July 1, 2006 UNRESTRICTED FREE AGENTS - as of 7/1 1:13pm The following players have qualified for Group 3 Free Agency (age 29 or older or with at least eight Accrued Seasons) and are Unrestricted Free Agents. ANAHEIM Jeff Friesen, Aaron Gavey, Jani Hurme, Jorgen Jonsson, Jason Marshall, Timo Parssinen, Ruslan Salei, Nikolai Tsulygin. ATLANTA Serge Aubin, Peter Bondra, Mike Dunham, Scott Mellanby, Pasi Nurminen, Ronald Petrovicky, Marc Savard, Steve Shields, J.P. Vigier. BOSTON Mariusz Czerkawski, Tom Fitzgerald, Hal Gill, Eric Healey, Brad Isbister, Jarno Kultanen, Dimitri Kvartalnov, Dan Lacouture, Brian Leetch, Jason MacDonald, Ian Moran, Eric Nickulas, Peter Nordstrom, Marty Reasoner, Jiri Slegr. BUFFALO David Cullen, Rory Fitzpatrick, Mike Grier, Jay McKee, Teppo Numminen, Chris Taylor. CALGARY Brian Boucher, Shean Donovan, Cale Hulse, Mike Leclerc, Craig MacDonald, Bryan Marchment, Brantt Myhres, Chris Simon. CAROLINA Matt Cullen, Martin Gerber, Mark Recchi, Aaron Ward, Doug Weight, Glen Wesley. CHICAGO Eric Daze, Jason Morgan. COLORADO Rob Blake, Bob Boughner, Jim Dowd, Petr Franek, Paul Healey, Dan Hinote. COLUMBUS Andy Delmore, Alexander Guskov, Jan Hrdina, Hannes Hyvonen, Trevor Letowski, Martin Prusek, Jamie Pushor, Radoslav Suchy, Darcy Verot. DALLAS Jason Arnott, Garrett Burnett, Johan Hedberg, Willie Mitchell, David Oliver, Nathan Perrott, Jeremy Stevenson, Patrick Traverse. DETROIT Dmitri Bykov, Cory Cross, Bryan Helmer, Manny Legace, Nicklas Lidstrom, Don MacLean, Eric Manlow, Mark Mowers, Chris Osgood, Brendan Shanahan, Jason Woolley, Steve Yzerman. EDMONTON Adam Bennett, Ty Conklin, Radek Dvorak, Kari Haakana, Todd Harvey, Ralph Intranuovo, Georges Laraque, Fredrik Lindquist, Mikko Luoma, Rem Murray, Michael Peca, Fernando Pisani, Sergei Samsonov, Dan Smith, Jaroslav Spacek, Dick Tarnstrom, Igor Ulanov, Sergei Yerkovich, Alexander Zhurik. FLORIDA Jamie Allison, Alexander Karpovtsev, Jamie McLennan. LOS ANGELES Valeri Bure, Joe Corvo, Nathan Dempsey, Steve Kelly, Jan Nemecek, Mark Parrish, Luc Robitaille, Jeremy Roenick, Brad Smyth, Marty Wilford. MINNESOTA Marc Chouinard, Alexandre Daigle, Scott Ferguson, Filip Kuba, Kirby Law, Andrei Nazarov, Randy Robitaille, Maxim Sushinsky, Daniel Tjarnqvist, Andrei Zyuzin. MONTREAL Jan Bulis, Miloslav Guren, Todd Simpson, Niklas Sundstrom, Vadim Tarasov, Pete Vandermeer. NASHVILLE Mark Eaton, Jukka Hentunen, Greg Johnson, Danny Markov, Yanic Perreault, Mike Sillinger, Brendan Witt. NEW JERSEY Tommy Albelin, Alex Brooks, Patrik Elias, Ken Klee, Viktor Kozlov, Darren Langdon, Krzysztof Oliwa, Erik Rasmussen. NEW YORK ISLANDERS Keith Aldridge, Joel Bouchard, Travis Brigley, Martin Chabada, Kenny Jonsson, Dimitri Nabokov, Tomi Pettinen, Dusan Salficky, Wyatt Smith. NEW YORK RANGERS Christian Dube, Ales Pisa, Tom Poti, Dale Purinton, Steve Rucchin, Martin Rucinsky, Martin Straka, Jason Strudwick, Ronnie Sundin, Petr Sykora. OTTAWA Zdeno Chara, Dominik Hasek, Steve Martins, Glen Metropolit, Joe Murphy, Brad Norton, Christer Olsson, Brian Pothier, Andy Schneider, Antti Tormanen, Vaclav Varada. PHILADELPHIA Donald Brashear, Eric Desjardins, Kim Johnsson, Mark Murphy, Brian Savage, Jamie Storr, Chris Therien, Mattias Timander. PHOENIX Boyd Devereaux, Oleg Kvasha, Chris McAllister, Steve Passmore, Jamie Rivers, Geoff Sanderson, Ray Schultz, Dwayne Zinger. PITTSBURGH Stefan Bergqvist, Eric Boguniecki, Chris Kelleher, Aleksey Morozov, Alain Nasreddine, Lyle Odelein, Lasse Pirjeta, Martin Strbak, Ryan Vandenbussche. ST. LOUIS Petr Cajanek, Reinhard Divis, Dallas Drake, Patrick Lalime, Reed Low, Dean McAmmond, Steve Poapst, Andy Roach, Stephane Roy, Scott Young. SAN JOSE Alyn McCauley, Scott Thornton. TAMPA BAY Jim Campbell, Chris Dingman, John Grahame, Pavel Kubina, Steve McLaren, Todd Rohloff, Shane Willis. TORONTO Jason Allison, Ed Belfour, Aki Berg, Lonny Bohonos, Maxim Galanov, Mikael Hakanson, Alexander Khavanov, Eric Lindros, Luke Richardson, Clarke Wilm. VANCOUVER Nolan Baumgartner, Sean Brown, Sven Butenschon, Keith Carney, Anson Carter, Craig Darby, Johan Davidsson, Jason Doig, Wade Flaherty, Ed Jovanovski, Justin Kurtz, Trevor Linden, Richard Park, Leif Rohlin, Jarkko Ruutu, Vadim Sharifijanov, Lubomir Vaic, Eric Weinrich. WASHINGTON Andrew Cassels, Frederic Cassivi, Doug Doull, Colin Forbes, Jeff Halpern, Ivan Majesky, Andreas Salomonsson, Mark Wotton.
Corp000085 Posted July 1, 2006 Report Posted July 1, 2006 its 2:03pm and Rory Fitzpatrick is still an UFA. Something must be wrong!
deluca67 Posted July 1, 2006 Report Posted July 1, 2006 Wow! Is that really the list? What happened to all of the talent that was supposed to be available this offseason? The only two players I would have any interest in seeing in a new/ugly Sabres uniform is Salei from the Ducks and Rucchin from the Rangers. The rest looks like a bunch of garbage.
Eleven Posted July 1, 2006 Report Posted July 1, 2006 Wow! Is that really the list? What happened to all of the talent that was supposed to be available this offseason? The only two players I would have any interest in seeing in a new/ugly Sabres uniform is Salei from the Ducks and Rucchin from the Rangers. The rest looks like a bunch of garbage. There are some good players on that list: Jovonovski, Carter, Chara, Hinote, Gill come to mind. Not all in the right price range, of course, and not all stars, but not "garbage." And then there's Roenick...
Chilly Posted July 1, 2006 Report Posted July 1, 2006 There are some good players on that list: Jovonovski, Carter, Chara, Hinote, Gill come to mind. Not all in the right price range, of course, and not all stars, but not "garbage." And then there's Roenick... Chara's a king according to LA radio station FAN 590
Taro T Posted July 1, 2006 Report Posted July 1, 2006 Chara's a king according to LA radio station FAN 590 Close. According to TSN, he's a Bruin. Link
Eleven Posted July 1, 2006 Report Posted July 1, 2006 Close. According to TSN, he's a Bruin. Link And Jovo, a Coyote (TSN's main page).
Chilly Posted July 1, 2006 Report Posted July 1, 2006 Close. According to TSN, he's a Bruin. Link Yeah, Spector just updated, interesting that the radio station in LA got it wrong. Bit of wishful thinking on their part.
LabattBlue Posted July 1, 2006 Report Posted July 1, 2006 Kubina got 4 years 20 mil from the Leafs...WOW. He was a guy I thought the Sabres might have a shot at. Guess not. :( Wow! Is that really the list? What happened to all of the talent that was supposed to be available this offseason? The only two players I would have any interest in seeing in a new/ugly Sabres uniform is Salei from the Ducks and Rucchin from the Rangers. The rest looks like a bunch of garbage. Either you are being really naive or you are looking at the current roster with rose colored glasses on if you believe there are only two players on this list who are worth signing. <_<
Barnabov Posted July 1, 2006 Report Posted July 1, 2006 Hal Gil - 6.3 mil for 3 years by Toronto. I wonder why only 2.1 per season - sounds low. Any chance we resign Jay McKee after the intial feeding frenzy is over if he's still available? Guess I'm waiting for the Rangers to make their usual stupid over-priced moves so I doubt Jay will stay a UFA for long - still good to hope
Eleven Posted July 1, 2006 Report Posted July 1, 2006 Hal Gil - 6.3 mil for 3 years by Toronto. I wonder why only 2.1 per season - sounds low. Any chance we resign Jay McKee after the intial feeding frenzy is over if he's still available? Guess I'm waiting for the Rangers to make their usual stupid over-priced moves so I doubt Jay will stay a UFA for long - still good to hope I think the Gill signing is a reasonable proxy for what McKee might expect to find on the market & I think it might make it easier to sign him.
mediumishot Posted July 1, 2006 Report Posted July 1, 2006 Mckee is looking for a four or five year deal, the sabres offered him a 3 year and he turned it down...check the buff news art from today...so any chances at signing him at hal gil type price seems for not. :(
Eleven Posted July 1, 2006 Report Posted July 1, 2006 Mckee is looking for a four or five year deal, the sabres offered him a 3 year and he turned it down...check the buff news art from today...so any chances at signing him at hal gil type price seems for not. :( It doesn't mean he's going to get a longer deal, though. No GM will be ignorant of McKee's age. Gill, I believe, is one year younger. My thinking is that if the market for a similar player is "three year deal," maybe McKee will come around. Maybe not, and maybe there's a GM out there who gives him four or five.
shrader Posted July 1, 2006 Report Posted July 1, 2006 I think the Gill signing is a reasonable proxy for what McKee might expect to find on the market & I think it might make it easier to sign him. After seeing that Hal Gill contract, McKee will get at least 2.5 a year. Gill is a useless stiff.
deluca67 Posted July 1, 2006 Report Posted July 1, 2006 Kubina got 4 years 20 mil from the Leafs...WOW. He was a guy I thought the Sabres might have a shot at. Guess not. :( Either you are being really naive or you are looking at the current roster with rose colored glasses on if you believe there are only two players on this list who are worth signing. <_< I would love Chara but I know the Sabres were not going to throw a ton of money at him. I guess 60+ wins will tint my glasses a bit. Salei is more then a capable of repalcing McKee's 20 minutes a game and Rucchin would be a huge upgrade from Mike Grier. I guess Peca could replace Grier also. Signing a cement foot like Hal Gil does nothing to improve this team. The Sabres will have better in the ROC next season then Gil. I would be interested in who you would like to sign and where they would fit in the lineup.
LabattBlue Posted July 1, 2006 Report Posted July 1, 2006 I would love Chara but I know the Sabres were not going to throw a ton of money at him. I guess 60+ wins will tint my glasses a bit. Salei is more then a capable of repalcing McKee's 20 minutes a game and Rucchin would be a huge upgrade from Mike Grier. I guess Peca could replace Grier also. Signing a cement foot like Hal Gil does nothing to improve this team. The Sabres will have better in the ROC next season then Gil. I would be interested in who you would like to sign and where they would fit in the lineup. If Teppo comes back, sign one of the following. If he doesn't come back, sign two of them... Carney Spacek Kuba Pothier I'd also love to see Halpern come in here as a replacement for Grier. Hard worker, good defensive player and more offensively than what Grier brings to the table.
gregkash Posted July 1, 2006 Report Posted July 1, 2006 I'm salivating over Patrick Elias.. I know I know, no chance in hell it doesn't mean i can't dream How about Brian Leetch though? He's old I know, but he's still got some wheels. Very good puck mover and I think he'd be more inclined to sign a 1 or 2 year deal.
deluca67 Posted July 2, 2006 Report Posted July 2, 2006 I'm salivating over Patrick Elias.. I know I know, no chance in hell it doesn't mean i can't dream How about Brian Leetch though? He's old I know, but he's still got some wheels. Very good puck mover and I think he'd be more inclined to sign a 1 or 2 year deal. Leetch? For a Teppo like deal I would do it. You plan for him to be your #6 and if he is better you have made a great move. That said. I wouldn't pay him more then $2 million tops for a one year deal. I'm not sure about Elias. I can be sold on him if you can explain where he fits on the team and what type of money you are talking about. Also, adding another forward means you have to move some out. Who's out?
gregkash Posted July 2, 2006 Report Posted July 2, 2006 Elias is a bonafied scorer and probably a "star", but not a Jagr like Scorer "star", he's a team player who works very hard. He kills penalties, he plays defense, he plays at 110% all the time. In my opinion, although he might be considered a "star" he's as bonafied a good hockey player as there is. Keep in mind we have 22 Unrestricted free agents, do you think we'll get them all? If I had to pick though, With Grier most likely leaving I'd rescind Pyatt's offer, and I'm unsure to how healthy Connolly is gona be, although I wouldn't cut him or anything. I also view Adam Mair as expendable for a player of Elias' caliber. Oh i also agree on the Leetch thing, but I'm pretty sure Leetch knows what he's worth now a days.. he's playing hockey for the love of it, and because he can.
elcrusho Posted July 2, 2006 Report Posted July 2, 2006 GREAT LINK FOR FREE AGENT TRACKING http://www2.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/06NHL_...ent_tracker.php
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